Decoding D-Day - lesson plan

This lesson introduces pupils to the vital role the Met Office played in D-Day. It includes codebreaking activities and explores the importance of weather observations and forecasts in decision-making.

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

• Reflect on the importance of weather observations and forecasts in decision making
• Understand why coding, or encrypting, information is important

Curriculum links:

• History/ People, Past Events and Societies – understand how people’s lives have shaped this nation
• English literacy and language – written and verbal communication
• Geography/Social studies/The World Around Us – observation, data collection and communicating data and prediction
• Computing/ICT – coding and encryption

Time required: 60 minutes for all activities (or less if individual tasks are selected)

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  Decoding D-Day lesson plan

   Decoding D-Day classroom presentation

  Encoded weather observations worksheet

  (pages 1-2 are the worksheet, 3-4 are the answers)

  Decoder key

Resources in Welsh (coming soon)

  Decoding D-Day lesson plan

   Decoding D-Day classroom presentation

  Encoded weather observations worksheet

  Decoder key